Mom’s Colonial Lines

The Coffin Dynasty: 1066 to Nantucket

Nearly a thousand years of documented history, from the Norman Conquest to the founding of Nantucket.

Peter Folger & Benjamin Franklin

The connection to Benjamin Franklin through Peter Folger of Nantucket.

Nantucket: The Founding Families

You descend from nearly every family that purchased the island in 1659.

Mayflower Passengers (1620)

Four confirmed direct ancestors aboard the Mayflower.

The Swift, Winter & Peckham Lines

Deep Cape Cod and Rhode Island colonial roots.

Mom’s Irish Lines

The Perry/Gumbleton Line

Your maternal grandfather’s line, from Ireland through Cape Cod.

The Wall Family: Mom’s Irish Side

Eleanor Wall’s entire family traces to Ireland.

Dad’s Lines

The Long Family

Irish roots, Rep. John J. Long, the Kennedy letters, Fall River.

The Pelletier/Harpin Line

Into French Canada — founding families of New France.

Notable Stories

A House Divided: The Coffins in the Revolution

One brother became a Patriot. The other became a Loyalist general.

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Abolitionist, women’s rights pioneer, Seneca Falls.

British, Scottish & Welsh Gentry

Knights, lords, and advisors to monarchs.

The Deborah Crowe Question

The disputed Wampanoag connection.